Apr 12
Bellatrix Comments: Cool it Xena! It’s just a joke. You’re not going to report me to H.R., are you?
Published 1980
Bellatrix Comments: Cool it Xena! It’s just a joke. You’re not going to report me to H.R., are you?
Published 1980
April 12th, 2018 at 11:01 am
The weird thing is, they’re both struggling to maintain eye contact.
April 12th, 2018 at 11:47 am
Twonicorns!
April 12th, 2018 at 1:01 pm
Rowena is such a bizarre artist. Skilled, yet there is always some level awkwardness to most every thing she paints. And she loves her some big booty.
April 12th, 2018 at 1:21 pm
The basilisk is a mythological snake. Just sayin’
April 12th, 2018 at 1:38 pm
I see your Unicorns! and raise you an alligator head belt buckle.
April 12th, 2018 at 3:47 pm
This must be the supreme example of Rowena’s commitment to doing anything to get out of painting feet.
April 12th, 2018 at 4:27 pm
Hmmm, a translucent magician, eh? He must have some impressive crystal balls. That’s what I think she’s trying to avoid eye contact with, actually, although the Twonicorns! seems intrigued.
April 12th, 2018 at 5:17 pm
@B.C. – That magician must be The Amazing Randy. Or David Cop-a-feel.
April 12th, 2018 at 5:28 pm
@B’mancer—Hairy Ho’-dini?
April 12th, 2018 at 5:37 pm
Close scrutiny shows the need for a “devil’s dumplings” tag.
April 12th, 2018 at 5:40 pm
He’s see-through. I’m going to assume this means he’s made of crystal.
I do appreciate the gender equality in their clothing – they’re both pretty much naked, especially our see-though man.
April 12th, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Includes the Hugo-winning story “I Scream at Djini”
April 12th, 2018 at 5:52 pm
According to one of the few reviews on Goodreads, there are no basilisks in the book. OTOH it has a Lafferty story I’ve not encountered before. But I still don’t think I’d read it on the bus.
April 12th, 2018 at 5:57 pm
“Roshan Tumescar; si-i-ize of a courgette”.
April 12th, 2018 at 7:08 pm
@Alice (12)—the original title for that story was “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream at Djini,” but Ellison sued.
April 12th, 2018 at 9:21 pm
Is the raven-haired swordmistress called ‘Sybillisk’?
April 13th, 2018 at 2:01 am
At first glance, I could swear we’d seen this before, but probably just things much like this. I’d have remembered Twonicorn!
This book contains stories by a lot of feminist writers; they may not have been best pleased by the topless woman with the literal vagina dentata Maybe his complete nekkidity made up for it, even if we can’t see the front. I think we need both “devil’s dumplings” and “Sir Mix-a-Lot” here.
How is her knife and sword going to do any good against the green flasher? He’s not solid! You can’t stab non-corporeal beings, no matter how much they deserve having their exposed djinn junk cut off.
@Francis: either Rowena missed foot day at UAI or she paints from the top down and by the time she’s at foot level, she’s either hit the deadline or is tired from lovingly rendering all that flesh and muscles.
@BC: hush! he’ll come yell at us again!
If this book looks us in the eye, will we die? Is that why none of them are making eye contact with each other?
April 13th, 2018 at 9:07 pm
“Ohhhh…you meant you are hung WITH a horse!”
April 14th, 2018 at 2:43 am
@A-S: yes, when the husband first glanced at it, he thought the horse was coming out of the man’s torso.
Here’s the true story behind (har) the cover, according to Ellen Kushner. Surprise — book was created b/c they had this painting available. They show the book it was originally for.
https://www.blackgate.com/2016/04/08/a-tale-of-two-covers-ellen-kushner-on-basilisk/
(Someone already made your joke there, alas)
April 14th, 2018 at 3:19 am
It’s an interpretive dance act?
@GSS-ex-noob: of course she can stab him, as long as she has a _magic_ knife and sword. Because magic.
April 15th, 2018 at 8:43 pm
@Bruce: Of course! Silly me.
April 16th, 2018 at 9:06 am
Basil is K? Was this before or after he became Q?
And, yes, folks I finally get to a John Cleese joke four days after Tat Wood.
April 16th, 2018 at 6:55 pm
The djinn’s left arm and shoulder are extremely wonky, plus he has a bad case of jazz hands, so I’ll give this ten stars for the WTF-ness and the awkwardness of the poses. Rowena in her heyday used live models posed in a photographer’s studio with props, and I guess she never moved past this technique into improvisational sketching. All her characters from this time look disassociated and.or ridiculous.
April 22nd, 2018 at 9:47 pm
So even among djinns there are flashers, then?
August 18th, 2020 at 12:36 am
“FFS! I ordered a HORNY man, not a unicorny man; oh, forget it.”